Check Your SPAM in Your WordPress Comments!
Posted by Karen in blogging tips, tags: spam filter, wordpress security, wordpress tipsThere can be times when you hit that “Delete All Spam” button in your WordPress dashboard, but, sometimes not all the comments in the SPAM section should be there and every so often someone might have their comment classed as SPAM when it isn’t.
So when you get a list of SPAM comments in WordPress make sure you check to see if someone you know not to be a spammer has fallen in the wrong box, this can easily happen and one of the reasons can be that someone is commenting either too quickly or too much and if this does happen then usually that person will be blacklisted across many WordPress driven blogs.
To stop this from happening check your comments and if you do see a commenter that shouldn’t be in the SPAM section then “Approve” their comment and after a few times they should start going straight to the blog rather that in the Spam section in the comments.
So to recap! Don’t just click the “delete all spam” button, check your spam section and approve anyone that has accidently fallen into the section 
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There can be times when you hit that “Delete All Spam” button in your WordPress dashboard, but, sometimes not all the comments in the SPAM section should be there and every so often someone might have their comment classed as SPAM when it isn’t….
nice tip.i check my spam often to see whether there are some comment.till now found 2 such cases.
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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December 8th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Only 2 that’s not bad
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Twitter: FamousBloggers
(21 comments) says:
I always check all the list before I delete the comments, I feel so sad when I leave a comment there in the dark for long time before got approved! and this is why I check spam comments like 20 times or more everyday!
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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December 8th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
I’m constantly checking the Spam comments like yourself
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In Blogger (blogspot), we can set commend moderation. I use it to make sure there are no spam comments. The bad side is that the more comments, the more you need to review and moderate. Another bad thing is that people’s comments don’t show up immediately.
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Twitter: ShotOfCoffee
(63 comments) says:
I check about once a day and more than a few times I’ve found legitimate comments there, sometimes even from close blogging friends.
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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December 8th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
It’s great to know that you are checking
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Twitter: TechPatio
(51 comments) says:
I have to check my spam every other day, otherwise it fills up so I don’t bother scroll through several pages – also because the spam messages I receive today are so long that it each spam comment takes up the full height of my screen, that’s a lot of scrolling
There’s this one guy that comments on my blog a lot, *all* of his comments go to spam, every time. I don’t know why. I even had him stop using the keywords in his name (also because I don’t allow it), but Akismet still spam his messages. Weird.
But yeah, people really should check the spam queue just every now and then. Some gold nuggets might get lost in there.
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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December 8th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
I’ve had the same problem with someone always ending up in the spam comments that isn’t a spammer, very strange!
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I use blogger and I’ve been hit hard with spam. I spend a lot of time deleting comments. Sigh. Oh well.
Have a terrific day.
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Twitter: knewthis
(38 comments) says:
A similar discussion is on at HospitalEra blog, and the author recommends IMHuman…Akismet is too unreliable..
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I check several times per day if I’m in my blog.
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Sometimes I do that to know if some worthy comments are falling into the spam folder. Things like this just happen sometimes, wordpress is not perfect.
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Twitter: michaelaulia
(2 comments) says:
Sometimes it’s hard to decide whether to approve or disapprove a short comment. It’s either a spam or genuine
But I always check my comments marked as spam since I’ve eliminated all automated comments using antispam bee plug-in
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Twitter: moonheart
(45 comments) says:
I have got many spam on my blog , I installed disqus comment form on my blog and it help me for protect from spammer.
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Twitter: zxxxt
(17 comments) says:
I always do that. I think for the 3 .5 months that I’ve been blogging I already saved a dozen comments. 2 of those are from ExtremeJohn because he used a different email address from his usual one so it didn’t automatically approved his comment.
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Twitter: HichamMG
(32 comments) says:
I do check my spam section of comments before performing a ‘Delete All Spam’ which was good to caught few comments from being spam but generally what is listed there is SPAM which we all hate it
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Twitter: Wiggy3
(2 comments) says:
I will admit to sometimes clicking delete all, then just as I have done that I’ve found a comment that wasn’t spam in Askimet. Also there have been times when I’ve selected all the spam comments, and rather than click DELETE spam comments I have clicked APPROVE!
Around 99.9% of comments caught by askimet are spam tho.
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Twitter: israelimom
(5 comments) says:
It can be a good practice, unless you are heavily hit by spammers. I have some blogs that accumulate thousands of spam comments every month – not about to go through them…
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Dennis Edell (98 comments) Reply:
December 10th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
This is why it’s best to do it on a more regular basis.
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Twitter: catalinadrian
(98 comments) says:
@Karen: I totally agree with your idea. Unfortunately not everybody is searching through spam and many times good comments are going down the drain along with spam.
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Twitter: jronaldlee
(6 comments) says:
I cannot afford to not check my spam. I have so few readers as is…
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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December 11th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Over time you’ll get more, the more you comment on other blogs the more people will visit your blog
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Twitter: wchingya
(2 comments) says:
At times I don’t understand why a truthful commenter can go directly to spam but not our comment box? Perhaps a glitch or a mistake of the software, or Akismet just got confused with the amount of it. ^^ If time/condition permits, I’ll usually will scan through first before I delete; but it’s still risky to be placed under ’spam’ since most likely people wouldn’t bother to have a second look at it.
Thanks for the reminder, Karen.
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Point taken, Karen. You never know how much someone may add to your blog, but was scooped up by Akismet and flagged as spam. Regular contributors are sometimes worth their weight in gold. It’s a shame to lose even one.
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Twitter: extremejohn
(165 comments) says:
I have complained about bloggers that don’t check their spam folders before, one of them thinks he’s a super big shot but doesn’t take the time to check the relevant comments in his Spam section. I check it weekly.
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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December 13th, 2009 at 9:50 am
It just goes to prove that everyone should check their comments
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Twitter: NedCarey
(11 comments) says:
Thanks for posting this. As someone who was caught by Akismet and had to fight my way back out I appreciate it. I check regularly but I rarely catch anything that shouldn’t be there. Akismet has been almost perfect for me
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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December 13th, 2009 at 9:52 am
It is best to check and thank you for commenting
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Twitter: gfserradinho
(28 comments) says:
I normally first go to spam comments and go through them all and approve the ones that are ok. Then select the rest and delete them. Only then would I go to the comments and start replying to them.
I would say that the number of spam comments I approve is around 4-8%, not much in the end.
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Dennis Edell (98 comments) Reply:
December 15th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
I’m just the opposite, checking the approved first to make sure there are none I want to spam.
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I recently started noticing that several of my regulars are ending up in my spam box. It took a few times of approving their comments and they were back to going to the regular comment list. Akismet does a great job of spam blocking but I think sometimes it’s a little over the top, but it’s better to the have the spam protection than end up with comments that don’t even contain real words in any language.
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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December 16th, 2009 at 8:42 am
It’s a wide spread problem, but as you say it is better to have the spam protection
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Good information. I tweeted this and am now following you on Twitter. To link back to your site Ill place a link of one of your posts up so my readers can head over. Hope this is what you wanted me to do.
Lucy
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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January 5th, 2010 at 8:41 am
Thanks Lucy
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Twitter: voyager8
(1 comments) says:
Some spam are good to be left, for they have some keywords that will bring in some traffic from Google search.
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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February 5th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
I never thought of it that way, but when it comes to sites with very suspect links and that are completely off topic, they just have to go
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Twitter: ord2out
(1 comments) says:
Not only that, but some spam might not get put in the spam box! Recently some guy has been spamming my blog like no other, he left like 20-30 random comments with weird links and such. Don’t always trust that it’ll catch everything.
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